1985 school children draw what they think the year 2000 will be like - General

[video=youtube;DI_6xDcPJCs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_6xDcPJCs[/video] My personal favourite is the one at 1:35.

This is really depressing [editline]8th April 2014[/editline] I want to live on the moon and watch tv too michael I want to too

Well, Wyatt, if you want to be able to afford rent in a major city then your dream is reality

"I would like to live on a farm, take care of the animals and [b]raise the food we eat[/b]. [i]"Potatoes with PhD in physics, only $4,99/lb."[/i]

It's kind of weird now since we're almost 15 years past 2000.

I can agree with the robot teachers part. :v: [editline]blah[/editline] [QUOTE=Krinkels;44491001]It's kind of weird now since we're almost 15 years past 2000.[/QUOTE] I know, I feel like an old fart...

Shark teeth in the mountains.

Man, everybody was so optimistic about the year 2000 since (probably) the 1950s. "By the year 2000, automated humanoids will perform many of our mundane day-to-day tasks for us. Such as washing our clothes, preparing our breakfast, and even trimming our shrubbery." The year 2000's passed, and we're still doing the damn laundry by ourselves.

We probably could have had most of that stuff if the majority of the world's governments weren't greedy, selfish, and terrible.

[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;44491158]Man, everybody was so optimistic about the year 2000 since (probably) the 1950s. "By the year 2000, automated humanoids will perform many of our mundane day-to-day tasks for us. Such as washing our clothes, preparing our breakfast, and even trimming our shrubbery." The year 2000's passed, and we're still doing the damn laundry by ourselves.[/QUOTE] I don't think people realize just how futuristic "now" is. Think about it. You've got a slab of glass and plastic in your pocket with the entire collection of human knowledge in it. We beam sound, light, pictures, data through the air on a whim. We have interactive virtual worlds with graphics sometimes rivaling reality. We've got printers that can make solid, three-dimensional objects. We send things into space weekly. We can talk to people halfway around the world, face-to-face, instantly. Sure, we don't have a moonbase yet, or flying cars, or jetpacks. But we do have a lot of really cool stuff that we just sort of take for granted. Do you think your parents foresaw any of that when they were kids?

[QUOTE=woolio1;44491253]I don't think people realize just how futuristic "now" is. Think about it. You've got a slab of glass and plastic in your pocket with the entire collection of human knowledge in it. We beam sound, light, pictures, data through the air on a whim. We have interactive virtual worlds with graphics sometimes rivaling reality. We've got printers that can make solid, three-dimensional objects. We send things into space weekly. We can talk to people halfway around the world, face-to-face, instantly. Sure, we don't have a moonbase yet, or flying cars, or jetpacks. But we do have a lot of really cool stuff that we just sort of take for granted. Do you think your parents foresaw any of that when they were kids?[/QUOTE]Tbh I was not expecting to have smartphones and sci-fi like tablets as quickly as we did.

[QUOTE=Killer900;44491385]Tbh I was not expecting to have smartphones and sci-fi like tablets as quickly as we did.[/QUOTE] I sort of realized that today. I was sitting on my couch, playing around on my iPad Air, when I realized that I had an all-in-one computer that weighed less than a pound, was lighter and smaller than my desktop monitor, with no cables, and responded to touch and voice rather than traditional I/O. That's amazing! I'm surprised more people don't see that.

I think a big part of it is the number "2000" being a massively different number than 1000-1999 instead of a decade in difference when it comes around its a whole thousand years. When really, its no different. To a kid it must sound like the beginning of a new world.

[QUOTE=woolio1;44491978]I sort of realized that today. I was sitting on my couch, playing around on my iPad Air, when I realized that I had an all-in-one computer that weighed less than a pound, was lighter and smaller than my desktop monitor, with no cables, and responded to touch and voice rather than traditional I/O. That's amazing! I'm surprised more people don't see that.[/QUOTE] People don't see it because stuff like this creeps up on you. The first touchscreen phones were seen as more of a gimmick, but they slowly became more fashionable until today when they're commonplace. Take the whole leap from the iPhone 1 to today's modern smartphones though and you'll be blown away at the differences, as it's much more of change.

[QUOTE=FreddiRox!;44491129]Shark teeth in the mountains.[/QUOTE] It's possible.

[QUOTE=woolio1;44491253]I don't think people realize just how futuristic "now" is. Think about it. You've got a slab of glass and plastic in your pocket with the entire collection of human knowledge in it. We beam sound, light, pictures, data through the air on a whim. We have interactive virtual worlds with graphics sometimes rivaling reality. We've got printers that can make solid, three-dimensional objects. We send things into space weekly. We can talk to people halfway around the world, face-to-face, instantly. Sure, we don't have a moonbase yet, or flying cars, or jetpacks. But we do have a lot of really cool stuff that we just sort of take for granted. Do you think your parents foresaw any of that when they were kids?[/QUOTE] The digital revolution has been huge. But other areas haven't changed nearly as much. Maybe 3D printing can revolutionize industry and production.

[QUOTE=J!NX;44492039]I think a big part of it is the number "2000" being a massively different number than 1000-1999 instead of a decade in difference when it comes around its a whole thousand years. When really, its no different. To a kid it must sound like the beginning of a new world.[/QUOTE] Was gonna say this. I mean, just look at all the movies that used "[B]2000[/B]" in their title as a selling point, to make it sound [I]new[/I] and [I]sharp[/I] Hell, even [I]Pokemon[/I] did it.

Wow, Keith did a good job at ending that. [QUOTE=Killer900;44491203]We probably could have had most of that stuff if the majority of the world's governments weren't greedy, selfish, and terrible.[/QUOTE] Just a reflection of the people.

[QUOTE=CyberHawk;44493181]The digital revolution has been huge. But other areas haven't changed nearly as much. Maybe 3D printing can revolutionize industry and production.[/QUOTE] While it IS very huge I read a very interesting piece about inventions that changed most peoples lifes the most and among the top ten were the refridgerator and a washing machine. Think of it. Doing laundry without a washing machine. How many working hours this would take.

[QUOTE=Smasher 006;44492070]People don't see it because stuff like this creeps up on you. The first touchscreen phones were seen as more of a gimmick, but they slowly became more fashionable until today when they're commonplace. Take the whole leap from the iPhone 1 to today's modern smartphones though and you'll be blown away at the differences, as it's much more of change.[/QUOTE] I agree. When the iPhone first came out, I just thought it was a glorified PDA with phone capabilities. It wasn't until the 3rd iteration that I realized the market for smartphone was expanding, and the uses ideal for our generation.

lol me and one other person I know still use a landline, I have a really old flip-phone that i'll pay for occaisonally and he just relies on the landline

lol too bad the fucking dicks in the 80s went crazy with the stock market also nasa's budget got rammed over and over again [editline]8th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Killuah;44493413]While it IS very huge I read a very interesting piece about inventions that changed most peoples lifes the most and among the top ten were the refridgerator and a washing machine. Think of it. Doing laundry without a washing machine. How many working hours this would take.[/QUOTE] ya but things like the car or the light bulb changed the very face of the world's industry. with the car you have the workers who build it on the assembly line, the gas stations, the support industries to build the cars, to maintain the cars, asphalt roads were invented for cars, rubber plantations were established to feed the need for cars. the lightbulb created a use for electricity, which people couldn't live without, so powerplants were built, transmission lines were erected, rivers damed, and cities lit up. the smartphone and the cheap-phone are probably the two greatest inventions of this century, almost everyone in the world has a cellphone now, or coverage by cellphones of some kind, and almost everyone in first world countries have smartphones

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GooNhOIMY0[/media]

i don't quite agree with the type-1 definition though, engineers are not tasked with taming earthquakes, they are tasked with mitigating the earthquake. in the future a sophisticated civilization may be able to stop an earthquake, but it would be much more economical to just build the city to avoid it, something which we're already rather successful today at doing. also floating cities are the same thing, it would be possible to build a city on the ocean (and we may have to at some point) but its more practical to build it on land where you have access to resources, you can erect new structures and modify it without having to replan everything. i think a type-1 civilization should be more like one that can live on a planet and provide a certain level of power for everybody, but is also in balance with the planet's ecosystem. we're already warned today that if we don't live sustainably then we won't be at this level in 100 years anymore, if a civilization was to grow to something like a type-1 then they would have to be in perfect harmony with their planet's ecosystem instead of being perfect masters of that ecosystem. Just my take on it, but the sustainability view is very new in engineering, and there's a lot of this holdover mentality that we must dominate nature and control it when its more realistic to seek to manipulate nature and live in balance with it. we can control and dominate nature in space, but in a balanced ecosystem like here on earth, you can't go eliminating things without consiquences, destructive acts of nature are part of a cycle that we must re-learn to live around.

We're as far away from the year 2000 as those kids in 1985.

Kids back then were so captured by all the space missions which explains a lot of their ideas. Not that we aren't like that today with mars rovers and the ISS, but people seem even more captured by modern electronic technology. Our future hype is pretty much just as preposterous as theirs.

they must be ~38 years old by now

[QUOTE=wewt!;44495643]they must be ~38 years old by now[/QUOTE] And heavily disappointed

[QUOTE=woolio1;44491253]I don't think people realize just how futuristic "now" is. Think about it. You've got a slab of glass and plastic in your pocket with the entire collection of human knowledge in it. We beam sound, light, pictures, data through the air on a whim. We have interactive virtual worlds with graphics sometimes rivaling reality. We've got printers that can make solid, three-dimensional objects. We send things into space weekly. We can talk to people halfway around the world, face-to-face, instantly. Sure, we don't have a moonbase yet, or flying cars, or jetpacks. But we do have a lot of really cool stuff that we just sort of take for granted. Do you think your parents foresaw any of that when they were kids?[/QUOTE] Shit I remember when a a cell phone actually became a cell phone. They were only a phone and you could actually take it around with you, even though they were expensive as all dicks, and relatively big Now I have this for a phone: [img]http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/05/24/Nokia_Lumia_521_35660271-0085.jpg[/img] You can grab it for $65, it has the Windows OS on it, you simply touch non existing buttons to make it do anything a regular computer can do, which are thousands upon thousands of times faster and more sophisticated than the one that put man on the fucking MOON. Tablets, while I think are pretty meh, are still great assets to replace existing things. Say, approach charts for pilots. How nice is it to have every chart you'd ever need at the touch of your finger tip, able to pan it, zoom it, then tab over to frequencies, or software the airline has provided for that specific aircraft type, all in one spot

The world won't be futuristic unless someone uses their innovative light bulb. Oh sorry, that's generalised with gaming. Hm... What can I use instead of innovate. Thesaurus come to my aid! Ah, to use their 'inventive' lightbulb. Then the sci-fi universe will become the sci-nonfi. But this will still be far, far away. Sit tight.